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The Good Witch of the West

The Good Witch of the West

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Regina didn't really wait long to leave Maleficent's castle after Mal and Scar left, she just told them to make sure her daughter was alright and then bid them goodbye.

Regina poofed herself into the woods, all she needed to do was use her magic to lift the enormous rock and then put it back after she entered the secret entrance to her castle.

She had learnt of it many years ago, when she tried running away from the King, it was this way she often went when she wanted some peace, sometimes she went that way when she went to meet her lovers in the woods; those were fun times, she thought fondly. After Leopold's tragic death she had changed a lot of things about the castle, she had her magic to assist her and so she used it to add more rooms, destroy some things, and make doors that would only open for her and only her.

After a bit of wondering the halls, she was in her bedroom in no time. She started taking out her shisha and the drug that she got from Wonderland, soon she was taking deep puffs of it into her lungs and humming as the smoke filled her lungs and eased the pain her heart was causing her.

"I remember someone telling me you had a substance abuse issue once upon a time," an accented voice said.

"This isn't me abusing anything," she leaned back in the chair taking a deep breath and then blowing out the smoke, "It's for the pain," Regina's voice came out too croaky for her liking.

"Pain?" the voice sounded extremely worried, the woman stepped out of the shadow, she was pretty, orange hair, milky white skin, piercing blue eyes, "I'm Zelena," she said softly, "Your sister," she stated firmly, almost proudly.

"I guessed, my crypt was open. Are you here to kill me?" The Queen closed her eyes.

"No, no of course not, I've been waiting to be reunited with you," Zelena slowly walked to Regina who was still inhaling the drug through the shisha, "I know you can't remember, but that's because mother took your memory of me, her guards were supposed to give me a memory potion but I fought them off," without warning she grabbed the Queen's hand and closed her eyes hoping that what she had learnt from the witches of Oz would be enough to reverse the memory spell that their mother had placed upon her little sister.

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Regina knew that she wasn't allowed to play with her mother's things, she had been told many times that there would be consequences of meddling in her mother's stuff. But she desperately needed the wand so that she could save herself from the dragon and find her prince.

Eight year old minds were funny like that, Cora had taught her that only magic could hurt bad enough to stop someone from doing something they didn't want them to, magic was a way to manipulate the mind; pain was a way to manipulate the mind.

Regina had performed magic only a couple times in her life, she remembers it came to her instinctively and she didn't really need to think about it very hard, that was until her mother had taken the ability away from her. She had given her a potion that would bind her magic and only open it again when she was 'of age' whatever that meant...

The young girl was never very good at using other objects with her magic, which explained why the magic in the wand backfired and why Regina only saw darkness, the last thing she heard was her mother's frantic cry of her name...

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Zelena gasped at the lavish manor; she had never really been in one like this. The woman, Cora, she reminded herself, had said that her daughter needed her help, that her daughter was a princess from a far land; Zelena had also never been to another land. She had heard stories of the Enchanted Forest and she must say that she was impressed, especially with the amount of magic she could feel coursing through every tree and river.